Social Lost dog reward scammer rant

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So my brother owns a digital marketing firm.
He was in Italy with his team on a company vacation.
I live west of Austin and he lives south of Dallas. He had his dog staying with some other family who have…problems, and someone let his 14 year old mini Aussie loose by accident. He doesn't have kids, this dog is the closest thing he's got. He loves his other dogs too, but this one is his baby.
I take steps to find her, he's in Italy freaking out. Everything's a dead end.
He's back, we're all still looking. Nothing.

It's been 10 days.

Now 2 hours ago I noticed that I have a message request in signal. I look, it came from 4:20 this morning. “I have your dog Rosi." Hell yeah! Stoked!

I call back immediately but no answer. Makes sense. I send a couple of texts. I'm happy to get one back a few minutes later.

“Jennie" as this person goes by is happy to help. She sends a picture. It's the type you can only open once so I screen record before I open it. Damn. It's an Aussie or border collie, but black. I relate this. Get ANOTHER picture that looks more like her. But when I zoom in I noticed some subtle differences. I point these out. Get ANOTHER picture, looks more like her. Oh wow! It was the lighting!

Start discussing logistics of pickup. Jennie asks about a reward. I say I don't know the amount but my brother will be very generous. Jennie asks what about NOW (1 AM central time), could she get something now? I'm getting a bad feeling. I tell her no, but we’ll bring cash to pick up. Jennie says that won't work, and starts rattling off bullshit. Single mom, hard working,blah blah blah.

And it all clicks for me. This scumbag was using reverse image searches of the dog (I posted a few on Craigslist originally) and found a couple that were close.

I call her out, she gets defensive, and I just go fucking off.

I have screenshots of what I said but I would definitely be banned even here in the war room.

I swear to God with all the shit going on, Epstein Island, Obamagate, Israel, Russia, this shit is somehow worse than that.

I don't really want to tell my brother about it I just needed to rant somewhere. I would genuinely feel okay killing the asshole behind that. Yeah, there are technically scummier things you could do. But I think that this is one of the people that would do those things and this is about as bad as it gets.

Fuckin hell yall.

Rest in peace Rosi. You really were the best girl.
 
Check all the shelters and put up a reward post. A friend of mine got her dog back after a week of searching after the reward money ad was posted. $700. The people who had the dog were waiting for just that, a reward money. Your dog may still be alive and living in someone else's home. Most likely a mile away from its original home. Good luck.

* Also, if you have the money, there are private investigators that get paid to find animals.
 
From my life experience ppl who had found dogs....didn't had asked $, they were happy if you will collect them ASAP, in person.
I didn't had lost dog, ppl I know, had...and usually persons who had collected dog even had refused to take gift $ offered ( they didn't asked for $ )....instead more often were lectures about dog handling.
 
Usually in cities there are lost dog/ cat pages of people who report animals being found check that out too on social media.


That sounds like a scammer for sure
 
I once found a dog with my friends when we were kids returned it to its owner via info on collar. We were sure we would get something. Ringed the doorbell and gave him the dog. We asked for a reward and he laughed and said no he (the dog) gets lost all the time and slammed the door lol.
 
Talk to delivery people (FedEx, UPS, USPS). Years ago our UPS guy found our Aussie several miles away a few weeks later. Our dog had found a company that was fenced in and they kept her there for awhile. The UPS driver happened to deliver there. This was in a busy city, too, so anything is possible. It's pretty horrible that scumbags try to take advantage of a tragedy. Good luck.
 
mattemate said:
So my brother owns a digital marketing firm.
He was in Italy with his team on a company vacation.
I live west of Austin and he lives south of Dallas. He had his dog staying with some other family who have…problems, and someone let his 14 year old mini Aussie loose by accident. He doesn't have kids, this dog is the closest thing he's got. He loves his other dogs too, but this one is his baby.
I take steps to find her, he's in Italy freaking out. Everything's a dead end.
He's back, we're all still looking. Nothing.

It's been 10 days.

Now 2 hours ago I noticed that I have a message request in signal. I look, it came from 4:20 this morning. “I have your dog Rosi." Hell yeah! Stoked!

I call back immediately but no answer. Makes sense. I send a couple of texts. I'm happy to get one back a few minutes later.

“Jennie" as this person goes by is happy to help. She sends a picture. It's the type you can only open once so I screen record before I open it. Damn. It's an Aussie or border collie, but black. I relate this. Get ANOTHER picture that looks more like her. But when I zoom in I noticed some subtle differences. I point these out. Get ANOTHER picture, looks more like her. Oh wow! It was the lighting!

Start discussing logistics of pickup. Jennie asks about a reward. I say I don't know the amount but my brother will be very generous. Jennie asks what about NOW (1 AM central time), could she get something now? I'm getting a bad feeling. I tell her no, but we’ll bring cash to pick up. Jennie says that won't work, and starts rattling off bullshit. Single mom, hard working,blah blah blah.

And it all clicks for me. This scumbag was using reverse image searches of the dog (I posted a few on Craigslist originally) and found a couple that were close.

I call her out, she gets defensive, and I just go fucking off.

I have screenshots of what I said but I would definitely be banned even here in the war room.

I swear to God with all the shit going on, Epstein Island, Obamagate, Israel, Russia, this shit is somehow worse than that.

I don't really want to tell my brother about it I just needed to rant somewhere. I would genuinely feel okay killing the asshole behind that. Yeah, there are technically scummier things you could do. But I think that this is one of the people that would do those things and this is about as bad as it gets.

Fuckin hell yall.

Rest in peace Rosi. You really were the best girl.
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I lost my beloved dog when I moved into my house. I was a mess, she had no collar on, no chip and she was 12 or 13. Local police found her and a friend's mother who worked with the police called me. She was fine after 1 week. Dogs are tough. Good luck i
 
The penalty for fucking with people like that should be a hammer to the hands so they can never do it again.
 
Solution: don't give a shit about dogs.

Someone check on Adesanya make sure he's okay
 
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